Hoi An Ancient town-Ticket prices, address of old houses and temples

Hoi An ancient town Viet Nam

Hoi An ancient town is a leading tourist attraction Vietnam. Every year this ancient city attracts more than 2 million visitors. Tourists stay in Hoi An 3 days in average and they could miss Ha Noi or Sai Gon but never Hoi An.

Japanese Bridge a symbol of Hoi An

Hoi An ancient town History and location

Hoi An ancient town is located in the downstream of Thu Bon River Quang Nam province, about 30 km South of Da Nang city. The heritage town used to be the busiest international seaport of Asia in 16th century. It has well-known as an international sea port with different names like Faifo or Hoai Pho. International merchants mainly came here for buying and exchanging frankincense, gold, fresh water, turtle, areca and silk.

Hoi An old town

Hoi An ancient town architectures

Chinese and Japanese traders have built a lot of temples, ancient houses and assembly halls such as Japanese bridge, Phung Hung old house and Phuc Kien assembly hall. In 19th century, Hoi An river mouth was narrow because of silting, the role an important seaport has moved to Đà Nẵng City. However, thank to that the old town can avoid devastation during French and America war and keep the architecture almost intact.

Phuc kien old temple Hoi An

In general, old houses in Hoi An are tubular and very long without windows. Front building look over the street use for customer or guest, back building look over the river use for collecting the goods. In the middle is small open yard as a store and living quarter of family. There are two floors so that very year when flood come, people can bring furniture up to stare.

Hoi An old street

Hoi An countryside

With a Hoi An motorbike rentalor authentic Bicycle tour in hoi anyou can easily visit traditional craft villages such as Kim Bong carpentry village, Thanh Ha pottery village and Tra Que vegetable village are also attractive places for tourist. Besides, Bay Mau coconut forest, and An Bang beach are the top visiting attraction in Hoi An.